Hello again. After the long holiday weekend I disappeared out of town for a week, during which the rest of the gang put out several fires. To recap: around the time I was last here we were dealing with a trio of disasters. First, we wasted 2 days pulling data up from the archives that happened to be bad/useless. Second, the secondary database (and splitter server) bambi crashed. And third, the switch handling all our Hurricane Electric traffic gave up the ghost. This all got cleared up in bits and pieces by me and Jeff before, around, or immediately around turkey day. Then I hit the road.

Meanwhile, the astropulse signal table reload project still lingers on! I'll spare you the details because I wasn't here and don't really understand them, but playing a shell game with a hundred million rows' worth of data ain't easy, and there have been annoying or unexpected hurdles each step of the way. As it stands now, the project is pretty much off again as we're trying to rebuild an index and all resources are required to get this done sooner than later. It's already taken a couple days and hasn't shown much progress.

It's not all bad news. Eric continues to make progress on RFI mitigation, and Jeff is moving forward on other aspects of the science code. The NTPCkr is waiting on the above science database issues, but improvements are still being made. And mork hasn't crashed in a couple weeks now (not sure why, though - it's due for a crash). I also may try another OS upgrade tomorrow on bambi, which will test doing the same upgrade on thumper, which will then solve several root/RAID issues on thumper, and then we can start improving the disk I/O issues elsewhere on the system.

And it's donation season! Actually, it's getting late in the season. I'm going to be lost in mass mail coding/etc. for a while...

- Matt-- BOINC/SETI@home network/web/science/development person
-- "Any idiot can have a good idea. What is hard is to do it." - Jeanne-Claude

The temporary outage note on the front page is wrong: It tells that currently no work is produced but the recently downloaded tasks and the server status tell me that production of S@H work is currently running hot creating 33 results/sec.